The word you are looking for is actually 'rake' instead of house edge. On poker, the dealer/site collect rake from pots on each hands in cash game. Portion of buy-in on tournaments usually also goes into the site, we dont really call this 'rake' though but yeah everyone understand how this works

On average its around 2.5-10% rake which usually differs depending on your account. On most sites, the higher amount you wager on monthly basis usually determine the rake and not to mention there will be cashback as well depending on the tier of your accounts

Hey folks, has anyone experienced an issue with a claim (Weekly Claim) ?

If you found out (bonus not found) during your claim, I suggest you contact Support Stake first. To confirm and make sure you are qualified the reward, Saturday during the Weekly Claim share the code claim showing the bonus not found.

I contacted (Support-Ticket) and they gave me other links for people who are having a problem for the link bonus.

The link: https://playstake.info/bonus?code=Bonus0906 feel free to tried

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BTW, I had a good result on (Poker Freeroll) on Saturday as well, ending with position 16th. To bad ended because need to call due my chips is runout by big blind & ante turn.

Did anyone notice? on Saturday Free Roll Poker 8:00 PM. We have few category on the tournament table:
- Win price by eliminating a specific player
- Win price by eliminating pro player
- Freeroll tournament

Do everyone know the prize on win by eliminating specifiq player/proplayer? and do we actually have these during the tournament ? how much is the reward.

Stake is running the freeroll tournaments after every 6 hours. So, they are burning $4k everyday through the poker tournament. BTW, I just noticed that 'evenbet' is mentioned on the poker game page of Stake.



Does it mean that Stake poker was developed by EvenbetGaming, not by their own developers?

I have a hard time believing you wouldn't have won even small amounts after that, but it's possible. It's allmost as likely as hitting that x11339. You are hinting that games could be rigged against you, but at the same time you seem to totally ingore the rest of your sentence.

Probablitity of losing a lot of bets in a row is unlikely, but so is winning once big. So how come the losing part in this isn't normal but at the same sentece, you admit that you just won a jackpot, which is normal to you? Or is weird because you also lost a lot after that? Slots and casino games are programmed with mathematical probability, to make money then give money.

I would say that winning jackpot wasn't the normal part here, but that's just me.

But i see this all the time: really unlucky = not normal, or rigged.
Really insanely lucky = lucky, and normal.

One question I have is that I play live blackjack games on this site but I have noticed many times that when everyone bet big amounts on the board the dealer gets 20/21 points even with risky cards.  How does it happen?  Can there be any tricks in giving cards here?  I don't understand if it depends on luck and random cards come.  I can see that they are giving random cards but I doubt that any technique works here.  Can someone clear this up for me.  I have lost good amount of money here now I am confused about it

Thank you.

Only on Saturday, and at the time (Poker-Time) during Weekly Stream. There are some 3 (LOGO) in the Table Match Information, move your cursor to 3 LOGO in the table match and you will find out these 3 categories. Well-meaning he just want to get bankroll as much he want by getting lucky, for me in the beginning folding everytime and just play with a strongest card.

It's crazy that stake doesn't even tell their members officially that their emails and other stuff have been stolen from them.
Sure, this happened a long time ago but still stake never even acknowledged that, really sad.

Obviously it's easy to spot these mails are fake. Not only from the email but also from the content. Why would stake move up players to platinum when they didn't do enough wager, doesn't make any sense.

But I am sure some poor souls still fall for this and might lose their account and/or some money.

That is true of course, you can't expect 2500 freeroll users to all pay up, there will be much less and that is alright because it is not a big deal. I understand that some people may want to see thousands on those type of paid big tournaments as well, but it is fine if it doesn't happen just yet.

We need to wait for it and if it works fine then we are going to be fine about it as well, but if we end up with nothing at all then it is going to be an issue and we should of course keep expecting the best from them at all times but sometimes we just need to accept the good they are doing as well. I personally believe that they are doing fine right now, and they have absolutely nothing to worry about neither, they are doing just fine at the moment.

It seems they have entered the poker very seriously, $1k free roll tournaments are a big thing in the crypto poker world. I guess $4k per day is not a big deal for Stake, but if they add more (and I think they will) they will have really attractive GTD tournaments. Since they have a lot of ambassadors if they make some deals with famous poker players that can be a big thing.

Many "real" poker players don't play free roll tournaments, they wish to play a "real game". That's why the stake has an opportunity to be a game changer in the poker world. I am somehow positive about that, whatever they did was a big hit.

So when this "promotional" part ends we will see what Stake prepared and how many people will be active. Many will stop playing, but I believe many new ones will start coming.

Although there are many stake players who play the original games but it cant be used as reference to predict about the poker game because poker game is pvp poker game which work differently with the other original games. Hopefully I'm wrong and Stake will have many active poker players when the cash game is opened later. Perhaps what they do now by having regular freeroll is the one they can do to gain the interest from players although I think the number of players who want to play real cash game from those who like to play the freeroll will not be more than 50%.